"I'm a Stranger Here" is a site-specific window installation that takes a conceptual approach to addressing questions about community resources and assumptions that "strangers" make about neighborhoods that are lower income or racially/ethnically different from their own... more details

Documentary filmmaker, Lois Farfel Stark, will use beautiful photography and fresh perspective of history to take us on a remarkable journey from tribal ceremonies in Liberia and the pyramids in Egypt... more details

This film dramatically portrays immigrant life in the United States as seen through the eyes of the sweatshop workers who made up the Jewish anarchist movement...more details

Test Audience Needed

@ Brasil Houston

August 29 // 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM // Free

TEST AUDIENCE NEEDED for independent documentary feature film about an African-American pioneer in the fashion modeling industry. If you enjoyed documentaries like "The Gospel According to André", and "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel" then you are wanted to give your opinion...more details

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30

Cultured Cocktails with HITS Theatre

@ Boheme Cafe and Wine Bar
August 30 // 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free

FRESH ARTS EVENT

Enjoy a drink or two, meet the HITS Theatre team, and take-in Boheme's bohemian atmosphere! 10% of the proceeds from the evening will support the organization, so don't be shy...
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The Arnold Chronicles by Corsair Media Productions

@ MATCH

August 30 // 6:00 PM // $10 - $15

A screenplay reading of a 1950s period piece about two American Marine veterans who have just returned from the Korean War, and travel through the continental South/Southwest in search of meaning, romance, and adventure circa 1955...more details

Lecture: Taking Positions

@ Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University

August 30 // 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM // Free

Join Rice University for a discussion with Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at The Art Institute of Chicago, followed by comments by Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director at the Moody, and Q&A with the audience...more details

Screening | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

@ Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

August 30 // 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM // Free

In conjunction with CAMH's exhibition Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, you are invited to view Brett Story's essential documentary, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes. The film is an examination of the prison and its place in American society...more details

The Moors by Jen Silverman by Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company

@ Chelsea Market Theatre

August 30 // 8:00 PM // Pay-what-you-can

Based on the lives of the famous Brontë sisters, this delightfully dark comedy by Jen Silverman satirizes stiff Victorian mores and the romantic escapism they induce...more details

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31

MARCI'S STAFF PICK

Ingmar Bergman's Cinema: A Lesson in Love

@ Museum of Fine Arts | Brown Auditorium

August 31 // 7:00 PM // $7 - $9
SHINGTON AVE. ARTS DISTRICT EVENT

One of Ingmar Bergman's most satisfying marital comedies, A Lesson in Love stars the droll and sparkling duo of Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Björnstrand as Marianne and David Erneman, a couple deep into their married years and seeking fresh pastures... more details